Re: [Bug-wget] Solution for wget, IIS, and NTLM "500 error" and a question.

[ohaya]

---- Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote: 
> address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I tested wget with an Windows 2003/IIS6 system, doing an NTLM 
> > authentication, I was receiving an HTTP 500 error ("Internal error" and 
> > "doesn't support this function").  
> > 
> > When searching, I didn't really find a good solution, so I was looking at 
> > the policies that were in the Active Directory Domain Controller and also 
> > the Local Policies on the IIS machine.  After doing a bit of messing 
> > around, I was finally able to get the wget NTLM authentication to work, by 
> > adjusting the "LAN Manager authentication" level on the IIS machine.  
> > 
> > Originally (when wget had the problem) that was set to "Send NTLMV2/refuse 
> > LM & NTLM", which is the "highest" level.  I changed that to "Send LM and 
> > NTLM", and bounced the server, and then wget worked.
> > 
> > So, it seems like the problem is that wget may be doing only NTLM?  
> > 
> > Does anyone know if wget (latest version) is able to support NTLMV2 (vs. 
> > NTLM)?
> 
> There are no releases that include NTLMv2 support. However, I believe
> Tony Lewis developed NTLMv2 support prior to the 1.12 release. It hadn't
> included as part of Wget last I knew; but this was due to the fact that
> no one had gotten around to testing whether Wget's NTLM (v1) support was
> still working after the patch (I believe it was a rewrite of the NTLM
> stuff); he tested the NTLMv2 functionality himself.
> 
> -- 
> Micah J. Cowan
> http://micah.cowan.name/


Micah,

Thanks for the info, and that probably explains what I ran into.  I saw that 
there's a post/response from Tony also, which I'll respond to.

Thanks again,
Jim